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Our Racist Government Our Silent People

I am here today because I am tired of living in fear  
  
I know now why they didn’t want to give me their names…  
Why they tucked in their crosses  
Sacrificed to prevent losses  
Turned their family tree into plywood  
  
“JUDE  JUDIN!!!!”  
I heard a Nazi knock on a Jew door  
Their hearts beat so loud in their minds they thought the SS could hear them  
But it was the “faucet running “…Anne Frank  
And they just stood there because they saw what happens when people start running  
  
I heard the threatening phone call Malcolm X’s wife got from the KKK  
Her tears drowned out the sound  
But then the house was lit on fire  
She couldn’t cry enough to extinguish the flames  
  
The Ignorant, Racist:  
“The culprits…  
I can’t tell you what they looked like or what exactly they were wearing  
I just know it was them, you know  
Eating that smelly food they eat    
Talking that gibberish among themselves  
I keep telling them to speak English  
Taking over our good neighborhoods  
Stealing our jobs for cheap  
And them girly boys in their sister’s make up bags  
I’ll beat that sodomite til he knows good and well how to procreate    
Yea..it was a long time ago  
…. I can’t tell us apart so much now  
Oswald Killing our president  
looked like my friends son shooting up that school  
can’t even blame it on them black boys”  
  
I see things happen all the time.  
By not telling you, I feel like a criminal  
& worse of all  
I’ve seen people not say on damn word about it  
Because they were afraid they would lose their jobs  
Or lose their life if they told you what was going on around them  
And I AM SICK OF THEM!  
TELLING FABLES ABOUT WHAT THEIR EYES HAVEN’T SEEN  
I am sick of them !  
Closing their eyes thinking they’re Martin Luther King with they’re  “I had a dream’s”  
When they are responsible for creating this nightmare  
  
…but  we can’t always blame it on them  
When we’re not voting  
Or attending parent teacher conferences  
Town meetings  
Or protesting  
OR TESTIFYING… or just….just opening up our damn mouth ,  
when we know someone is actually listening  
I know you are listening.  
Do something to make it right!  
  
IG: Nourish_Cruz
Written by 1Docmcruz (PoetCruz)
Published | Edited 16th Dec 2018
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